School-loom.



Patented July 5, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

BEATRICE E. LINDBERG, OF FARIBAULT, MINNESO'IA.

SCHOOL-LOOIW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,479, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed .Lugtst 20, 1902. Serial No. 120,339. (No model.)

To a, 10/1/0777, zit may concern:

Be it known that I, BEATRICE E. Lnvpnnne, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Faribault, in the county of Rice and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved School-Loom, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device for teaching children the art of weaving and for enin which similar characters of reference indicato corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

e indicates the side bars, and]; the end bars, of the device. The end bars 5 are notchedat the points indicated at 6", so that thewarpthreads may be laid therein, as shown. 0 indicates the lay, which slides on the side rails a; and has notches 0 therein for the reception of the warp-threads. These elements are all the same as those disclosed in my prior patent on a school-loom, dated July 1, 1902, No. 7 03,799. The end rails Z) project up above the side rails to, as shown best in 2, and engaged with the upper portions of the end rails are the hooks (Z of the bows (Z. These bows (Z extend, respectively, along the outer sides of the end bars 7) and have their outer edges bowed outward from the end bars, the greatest width of the bow being at the middle, as shown. The warp-threads are passed through the notches c and I) of the parts 0 and b and are then carried under the frame, their ends being connected with the hammoclerings 1/. as indicated in the drawings, and said rings being drawn together by a fastening, (not shown,) which may be of any suitable sort-for example, a piece of string. The war ythreads, as shown in Fig. 1, form the warp of the hammock. The woof-threads are then woven in and out betweenthe warp until the entire space between the end bars 7) is filled, after which the connection between the hamn'ioek-rings should be severed, and the structure of the hammock will be complete. The purpose of providing the bows (l with their curved outer edges is to give the hammock its proper concave form to prevent the doll or other object placed in the hammock from rolling out of the sides thereof. Were the warp-threads to be stretched merely over the end rails 7) and then passed under the frame and joined together the hammock when formed would describe a plane surface; but the bows (Z, as shown, makeitnecessary to employ at the nuddle of the loom warp-threads of greater length than those at the sides, and when the rings of the hammock are connected together as described all of the threads, notwithstanding that they may be of irregular length, are held taut with a uniform tension. From the foregoing it will be seen that the loom-fra1ne is flat and that the bow. at the ends of the frame have their curved edges lying in a plane in or parallel to the plane of the loom-frame, whereby to hold the warp-thremls in a flat plane in position for weaving.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resorted to at will with out departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence 1 consider myself entitled to all forms of the invention as may lie within the intent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention,l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. he combination with aloomframe,com prising the side and end bars and the lay working on the side bars toward and from the end bars, of a bow extending along one of the end bars and having hooks engaged with the ends thereof, said bow having the warp-threads passed over its curved edge, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a loom-frame, cornto this specification in the presence of two subprlsing s1de and end bars, of a bow extending scribing witnesses.

along one of the end bars and having hooks BEATRICE E LINDBERG engaged with the end thereof, said bow having 5 the warp-threads passing over its curved edge, I \Vitnesses:

for the purpose specified. I THos. H. QUINN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name 1 ANNIE MCCARTHY. 

